Diary of an HD Monster

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The "vision" is broad...think of a company's mission statement. It's also the easiest thing to define. It's the principals that are hard. We haven't had "sign off" on one yet, but thanks for challenging me on this because I WILL NOW.

Here's my first pass....

Our vision is to "Happily share a life together where each partner feels happiness, love, respect, security and the mutual support of personal goals".

This is supported by a whole arsenal of Principals...(note...these are just off the cuff)

Our vision is supported by "Communication"
Our vision is supported by "Being physical with each other"
Our vision is supported by "Helping"
Our vision is supported by "Spending quality time together as a couple"
Our vision is supported by "Being attentive to each other's needs"
Our vision is supported by "Caring"

Then, you can break those down into specifics.....

"Being physical with each other"
- < fill it all in >

"Spending quality time together as a couple"
- 1 hour per night
- Going to bed together each night
- At least 1 phone call to each other per day when separated by travel

etc.


So you see, there's a comprehensive "constitution" that can be created that defines the relationship. The discussion and negotiation of these could lead to some interesting understanding of our partners.

This may seem like a silly idea. I'm obviously better at understanding business concepts so this comes natural. I'm going to make a worksheet for us to individually do this but I don't want to do this until I have a good understanding of what to do next.


There are books that contain all these principles. I think the KLA stuff is identical to this concept. I want to buy one of these books and give it to W when she does the survey because she can use the book to give her ideas she hasn't thought of. If she had the ideas in the first place, we wouldn't be here now.

Hope this helps. It helped me alot to try to explain it because I'm not formulating a plan to use this in a collaborative way.